Jabber Software Foundation and XCP Consortium Team Up to Build the Real-Time Internet
The Jabber Software Foundation and the XCP Consortium have agreed to integrate their technologies and create the first 4th generation protocol stack for XML-based real-time communications. This service combines the best-of-breed XML streaming technology developed by the Jabber Software Foundation (and recently approved by the IETF as the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, or XMPP) with a dedicated XML-aware routing layer (the XML Control Protocol, or XCP), resulting in a robust, reliable, scalable foundation for building out the real-time Internet.
Minneapolis, MN and Denver, CO (PRWEB) April 2, 2004 -– After weeks of
negotiation, the Jabber Software Foundation and the XCP Consortium have agreed
to integrate their technologies and create the first 4th generation protocol
stack for XML-based real-time communications. This service combines the
best-of-breed XML streaming technology developed by the Jabber Software
Foundation (and recently approved by the IETF as the Extensible Messaging and
Presence Protocol, or XMPP) with a dedicated XML-aware routing layer (the XML
Control Protocol, or XCP), resulting in a robust, reliable, scalable foundation
for building out the real-time Internet. In a related announcement, the XCP
Consortium made available sample Open Source implementations of its XCP protocol
for use in other applications.
“The XML Control Protocol is a clean,
tight solution to the general problem of reliable, scalable, high-speed
peer-to-peer communication, going beyond even XMPP by building XML awareness
into the Internet's core routing layer. The synergies between XCP and XMPP will
enable us to provide a cohesive suite of XML protocols for real-time
communications,” said Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the Jabber
Software Foundation. “Besides, it's about time we replaced TCP with an XML-aware
protocol, and XCP fits the bill to perfection.”
Craig Wilson, Chief
Technology Officer of the XCP Consortium, remarked: “The Jabber community's
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an obvious candidate for direct
transmission as pure XML over the Internet. When carried via XCP, Jabber instant
messages and other XMPP data will travel without the need to be encoded and
decoded as lower-level transport protocol packets. The efficiencies achieved
will be immense.”
The XCP Consortium is a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to evolving the Internet from its legacy UDP and TCP orientation to
protocols based upon XML. The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) is an
independent, non-profit organization that builds open application protocols on
top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
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